user x login fails

["Tadek" <tadek@telus.net>]

(sorry for double posting but my initial post in lists.debian.org was
rejected since I had to
subscribe first and after I did 2nd email address was given to me for
posting)

Dear friends,

I encountered following problem (using debian sarge):
- after installing k3b (apt-get), opera (dpkg from opera for sarge)
and adobe reader in this order, I can not x login as ordinary user; I
can still X login as a root; kde and gnome behave the same. When I
enter user name and password in x client login dialog, screen blanks
for second or two, X grey screen appears with X cursor and login
dialog appears again.

- in addition if I after successful login as root and starting kde session,
I cannot close kde shell konsole; windows stays on but shell console is
dead;


I tried:
- removed file /home/xxx/.kde
- removed k3b and opera
- upgraded installed packages
- reinstalled k3b and opera

I am relatively new to linux and very new to debian distribution.  Any help
and/or pointers will be
appreciated.

Regards,
Tad